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The CreativePro Podcast InDesign 2026: What's NewInDesign 2026 is here—and so are David and Anne-Marie! In this episode of The CreativePro Podcast, David Blatner and Anne-Marie Concepción bring back InDesign Secrets and dig into the newest release of Adobe InDesign (v21). They explore what's fresh, and what's just plain weird. From the new Flex Layout feature to live text editing in the browser, they unpack the good, the bad, and the future potential of InDesign's next chapter. Along the way, they share favorite finds, event updates, and a few classic "InDesign Secrets" throwbacks—complete with the return of the Obscure InDesign Feature of the...

2025-10-2845 min

The CreativePro Podcast AI's Impact on Creativity with Amy Balliett and Mark HeapsIn this episode, Amy Balliett and Mark Heaps sit down for an honest conversation about artificial intelligence and what it means for creative professionals. They share how AI is showing up in their work today, the opportunities it creates, and the worries it raises about originality, ethics, and the future of design. Along the way, you'll hear candid reflections on how creatives can keep their unique voice while adapting to rapid change, why embracing experimentation matters, and how to balance efficiency with authenticity. Amy and Mark bring both optimism and caution to the discussion, leaving you with...

2025-09-2354 min

The CreativePro Podcast Inside CreativePro: Content, Community, and AI Creativity with Mike and TheresaIn this episode, Theresa Jackson and Mike Rankin go behind the scenes at CreativePro. They share how their similar career beginnings in prepress connected them at their first meeting many years ago, and how they now share overlapping roles at CreativePro. You'll hear from Mike about the CreativePro Magazine evolution from InDesign-only coverage to a broader creative focus, and other changes that make content faster and easier to digest. This is followed with a conversation about community connection and their ideas for sustaining the energy of CreativePro Week year-round. Mike shares his newly formed Office Hours, and Theresa teases...

2025-08-2639 min

The CreativePro Podcast Introducing the CreativePro PodcastInDesignSecrets is now the CreativePro podcast! Join David Blatner and Theresa Jackson and review the past 20 years of podcasting, as well as what to expect next! Links and Info: Our podcast started in late 2005! Trivia: Did you know our podcast intro music was created by Anne-Marie Concepcion's daughter, Nicole?! Have an idea for a future podcast? Leave us a note below!

2025-07-2919 min

The CreativePro Podcast Ep. 330: Evergreen TipsTopics: Great lessons from the archives (that you may have missed) First look at InDesign 20.3 Obscure Feature: Delete All Guides on Spread Sponsor: PageProof is a simple-to-use but powerful online proofing platform that makes giving feedback on creative work effortless See David's latest conversation with PageProof founder, Marcus Radich Links: Old InDesign Magazine articles that are definitely evergreen: From issue 1: Recipes for Applying—and Ignoring—Text Wrap in InDesign issue 2: Fast Formatting with Nested Styles in InDesign issue 7: InDesign Tips of the Trade issue 8: Working with Anchored Objects in I...

2025-04-2940 min

The CreativePro Podcast Ep. 325: Table TricksTable Scripts: Switching Rows and Columns in an InDesign Table Sort tables Setting Table Column Widths Easier Table Formatting Sizing Columns and Rows with a Script Calculations in InDesign Active Tables plug-in from DTP Tools Fixed Issues in InDesign 20.0.1 CreativePro Events: The Design + AI Summit, CreativePro Week, and more Obscure Feature: Cell Division

2024-11-2734 min

The CreativePro Podcast Ep. 323: To Embed or Not to Embed?News: CreativePro Week 2025 in Phoenix: registration is open CreativePro online summits The Design + Accessibility Summit The Design + Marketing Summit The Design + AI Summit CreativePro Magazine Sept. 2025 issue: Accessibility Tools Sponsors of this episode: Adobe MAX: The Creativity Conference PageProof: All your proofing in one place. Online. Embedding Graphics: To Embed or Not to Embed Graphics in InDesign Files The Links Panel Reveals Information About Embedded Graphics Paula Scher: Wikipedia entry Pentagram Book suggestions: Logo Beginnings (Amazon link), and Logo Modernism (Amazon link) Math Typesetting: we rec...

2024-09-2743 min

The CreativePro Podcast Ep. 322: Answers to Forum PostsNews More CreativePro events coming up Update on InDesign 19.5 *beta* feature CreativePro Magazine 25 Years of Tips and Tricks! Catch Anne-Marie Sept 19 at the L.A. InDesign User Group (online) Sponsored by PageProof The Benefits of Online Proofing for the Creative Workflow PageProof review PageProof's website Update note on InDesign 19.5 Remember that GenAI stuff in 19.5 is beta! Three interesting InDesign Secrets forum posts How to get text to sit outside the text frame More on First Baseline Offset How to compare two PDF files PDF Comparator from Premedia Systems Comparing images or pa...

2024-08-2737 min

The CreativePro Podcast Ep. 321: What's New in InDesign 19.5News InDesign 19.5 released 2024 CreativePro Week available on-demand More CreativePro events coming up CreativePro Magazine latest issue Sponsored by PageProof The Benefits of Online Proofing for the Creative Workflow PageProof review PageProof's website Unboxing InDesign 19.5 InDesign 19.5 Adds Generative Expand, History Panel, and Find/Change Text Case Adobe's What's New in 19.5 page Change Case: Peter Kahrel's script GREP Solution to Flawed Title Case Feature History panel: The way we used to do History panels Accessing Document History Obscure Feature: .joboptions More on PDF presets

2024-07-2735 min

The CreativePro Podcast Ep. 320: Must-Have ScriptsNews InDesign beta to test opening PDFs to edit in InDesign CreativePro Week July 8–12 in DC! (and livestreamed) Use code CPSECRETS for $100 off any multi-day pass The InDesign + Accessibility Summit, Oct. 8–11 (online) CreativePro Magazine latest issue Interview with Sabine Lenz, "The Paper Queen" PaperSpecs site Sabine's bio and sessions at CreativePro Week Must-Have Scripts How to Start Using InDesign Scripts (with the MakeGrid script) Copy InDesign Fonts to Folder (by Justin Putney at Ajar) Document Analyzer (by Keith Gilbert) LoremIpsum-izer script Calendar Wizard (by Scott Selberg) Scramble Text in Place to Hide Private Info (uses...

2024-06-2847 min

The CreativePro Podcast Ep. 319: Marcus Radich InterviewNews InDesign 19.4 released CreativePro Font Collection Vol 4 Online Events and CreativePro Week CreativePro Magazine latest issue Marcus Radich interview PageProof site Watch Marcus demo PageProof Exploring InDesign 19.4 New features in this release New EPUB Accessibility features Obscure Feature of the Week: Adjust Dashes and Gaps Setting a Dash Stroke with Exact Gap and Dash Values in InDesign Corner Stroke Effects Adding Strokes to Just the Corners of a Frame Creating Scalloped Edges How to Make Lumberjack Plaid You can do the same adjustments in Photoshop!

2024-05-2644 min

The CreativePro Podcast Ep. 318: Khara Plicanic InterviewNews InDesign 19.4 new features Note: 19.4 wasn't fully released when we recorded this podcast! You can learn more about the new features here. Online Events and CreativePro Week CreativePro Magazine latest issue Kara Plicanic interview Khara's web site Interview with Khara Khara's CreativePro articles and videos Secrets of the Live Preflight Panel Finding Overset Text With Preflight Customizing a Preflight Profile Finding Hidden Items With Preflight Profiles Use Live Preflight to Manage Page Sizes How to Create Preflight Profiles in InDesign Using the Book Panel to Preflight Multiple Documents More Preflight articles Obscure...

2024-04-2653 min

The CreativePro Podcast Ep. 316: Interview with Julie ShafferNews InDesign 19.2 fixes some issues Discontinuation of Creative Cloud Synced files The InDesign + Long Documents Summit (use discount code CPSECRETS for $100 off!) CreativePro Week (use CPSECRETS for $100 off any multi-day pass) Julie Shaffer Shaffer Creative Certified Professional Services Marketer (CPSM) program, from SMPS: https://www.smps.org/certification/ Interview with Julie Shaffer, Certified Marketing Pro Don't Let Adobe InDesign/InCopy Notes Go Unnoticed Secrets of the Scripts Panel What Do the Default Sample Scripts Do in InDesign? Community Scripts for All Organizing Scripts into Folders Managing InDesign Scripts Easily manage dozens of scripts among...

2024-02-2737 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 315 In the news InDesign 19.1 (second attempt) released! Fingers crossed Upcoming online-only events: The Presentation Design Conference, March 6-8 The InDesign + Long Documents Summit, April 5 CreativePro Week 2024, July 8–12, Washington, DC and online CreativePro Magazine February 2024 lead story: Presentation Design January 2024 lead story: AI in AI ;-) Interview with Nolan Haims, presentation designer extraordinaire Secrets of the "Panel With The Longest Name" Obscure Feature of the Week: Apply to Parent Page Only Links mentioned in this podcast What's new in InDesign 19.1 BUT don't use ID 2024 (19.x) with Hebrew, Arabic, or RTL text (bug reports on facebook) and (bug reports in userv...

2024-01-3141 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesign Secrets Podcast 314 In the news InDesign 19.1 here and gone Upcoming CreativePro Online Events CreativePro Magazine December 2023: Charts and Graphs In honor of podcast 3.14, all about Pi fonts! Obscure Feature of the Week: Ruler on Spine Links mentioned in this podcast Don't use ID 2024 (19.0) with Hebrew, Arabic, or RTL text (bug reports on facebook) and (bug reports in uservoice) InDesign on Sonoma (Mac) has UI flashing problems; waiting for Apple to update for fix (bug report in uservoice)Bugs: Colin's article about bar graphs: Making Variable Bar Graphs in InDesign with Data Merge All about Pi… Pies in Ace Ha...

2023-12-2926 min

The CreativePro Podcast nDesignSecrets Podcast 313 In the news InDesign 2024 updated to 19.01 Register for the Design + AI Summit! CreativePro Magazine November 2023: Multilingual Design, Glyph panel in depth Secrets of the Align Panel and its weirdo cousin, the Gap tool Obscure Feature of the Week: Auto Update URL Status Links mentioned in this podcast Great article about Glyphs panel: https://creativepro.com/digging-into-the-glyphs-panel/ Align Panel Tutorials: Setting Exact Space Between Objects in InDesign What and Where is Distribute Spacing? InDesign How-to Video: Use the Align Panel Align Panel Enhancements InDesign How-to: Make a Mondrian-inspired Grid InDesign Basics: Making a Photo Grid The Right Wa...

2023-11-3032 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 312 In the news Register for our Online Summits: Design + Accessibility, and Design + AI! CreativePro Magazine October 2023: Accessibility for Newbies All about Adobe InDesign 2024 (v19.0) Adobe MAX 2023 review and ID Tips from Attendees Obscure Feature of the Week: Show Structure Sponsor for this episode >> Priint:Suite is an enterprise platform that reduces the time to create marketing publications up to 80% and enables creative marketers to focus on being creative. Automate layouts following business/layout rules without limits on creative freedom. Instantly create personalized or language variants. Learn more about where and how to use it with InDesign here! ...

2023-11-0138 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 311 In the news Two more online Summits coming up, check them out! CreativePro Magazine September 2023 all about Editorial Workflows Our own InDesign Sneaks Obscure Feature of the Week: Text Rotation Sponsor for this episode >> Adobe MAX 2023 Creativity Conference is happening October 8–12 in Los Angeles, California. Learn from experts and innovators, top creatives in design, photography, illustration, video, 3D, and more. Of course, the highlight is that many InDesign experts will be presenting, live and online — even the Adobe engineering team from India. Hope to see you there! Links mentioned in this podcast The Design + Data...

2023-09-3032 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 310 In the news: Design & Data Summit, Sept 21–22, online only More online Summits coming up, check them out! CreativePro magazine September 2023 all about Editorial Workflows Adobe InDesign 18.5 released New free scripts we like Deep Dive into the Scripts panel Obscure Feature of the Week: Verbose Sponsor for this episode >> Santa Cruz Software is the maker of LinkerUI, a best-in-class extension that connects InDesign and other CC applications to your DAM and cloud-based services like Dropbox. Box, GoogleDrive and more. It enables direct searching, opening, placing, and syncing of assets. A new feature in LinkrUI called Smart-Linkr now automatically fi...

2023-08-3045 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 309 In the news: Design & Marketing Summit, July 27–28, online only More online Summits coming up, check them out! Adobe MAX 2023, David and Anne-Marie are doing live sessions, many more InDesign pros presenting live and online only CreativePro magazine July 2023 all about Artificial Intelligence Podcasts we like (and please review ours)! David's story about recovering from Can't Save/Save As disasters Deep Dive: Secrets of the Glyphs panel Obscure Feature of the Week: Styles Override Highlighter Sponsor for this episode >>Santa Cruz Software: Did you know that 66% of sales professionals can't get their sales or marketing collateral in ti...

2023-08-0140 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 308 In the news: CreativePro rebrand!! Design & Marketing Summit, July 27–28, online only Adobe MAX 2023, David and Anne-Marie are doing live sessions InDesign 18.4 is slowly being rolled out CreativePro Week was phenomenal! Grab an On Demand Pass to watch all the sessions, including IGNITE! and download the handouts Next year in Washington DC! More info to come. CreativePro Magazine June 2023, issue 20: Email templates, cover story by our designer Pam Sparks! Also great InDesign tips and tricks Getting geeky with IDML, Tagged Text, ICML, and Snippet files Obscure Feature of the Week: Remove Forced Line Break Sponsor for this episode >> Noble...

2023-06-2741 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 307 In the news: Article Hunt contest winners Adobe MAX 2023, David and Anne-Marie are doing live sessions InDesign 18.3 is slowly being rolled out CreativePro Week, June 5-9 in Phoenix (and online) IGNITE CreativePro is back! Movie Night Design + Marketing Summit, July 27-28, online event CreativePro Magazine May 2023, issue 19: Virtual Photography, and lots of InDesign content Fonts in InDesign: Best practices and best tips Obscure Feature of the Week: Ornaments Links mentioned in this podcast Adobe MAX 2023 speakers Including ... Anne-Marie and David Angelo Montilla, who we interviewed in podcast episode 290 Dax Castro, interviewed (with Chad Chelius) in po...

2023-05-2937 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 306 InDesign Public Beta for Cloud Docs Events: CreativePro Week 2023 June 5–9, Phoenix, Arizona (and online!) Design + Marketing Summit (online, July 27–28) Design + Data Summit (online, September 21–22) Creative Pro Magazine issue 19 includes articles about virtual photography, InDesign layers, and a review of IndexMatic 3 Interviews with Nicte Cuevas and Bart Van de Wiele Obscure InDesign Feature: Presentation Sponsor for this episode >> Noble Desktop: For over 30 years, Noble Desktop's project-based classes and certificate programs have given professionals the tools to pursue creative careers in design, coding, and beyond. Learn more about them on our Training Provider page or at NobleDesktop.com. Links...

2023-05-0456 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 305 InDesign 18.21 release CreativePro Week 2023 June 4–9, Phoenix, Arizona (and online!) NEW Design + Marketing Summit (online, July 27–28) Awesome lineup, including Jesus Ramirez, Von Glitschka, Amy Balliet, and new speakers incluing the amazing Jim Krause, Brodi-Rose Newsome, Kyle Hamrick Creative Pro Magazine issue 18 feature story is about motion and video in Photoshop! All about Measurements: You're bound to learn a few tips Obscure InDesign Feature: Not Shifted Sponsors for this episode >>PageProof is the top online proofing workflow platform for your creative process: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, PowerPoint, image files, and more. It's free for reviewers, and flat rate pricing for you and...

2023-04-0531 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 304In This Episode: News Design & Powerpoint Summit now available on-demand CreativePro Week 2023 coming up in June! David's Adobe Live session A few InDesign features that just don't work right (it's not you — it's the software) Obscure InDesign Feature: Footnote Number Sponsors for this episode >>PageProof is the top online proofing workflow platform for your creative process: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Powerpoint, image files, and more. It's free for reviewers, and flat rate pricing for you and your designers makes it easy to get started! Learn more about PageProof in David's in-depth interview in this CreativePro Conversation on YouTube...

2023-02-2836 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 303 News: InDesign 18.1 release Design & Powerpoint Summit coming up Feb 16–17, 2023 CreativePro Week 2023 agenda posted CreativePro Magazine January 2023: PowerPoint Tips; Overcoming Creative Burnout. CreativePro Magazine February 2023: Making Forms with InDesign and Acrobat Monitoring the InDesign Dashboard ChatGPT and Generative AI Obscure InDesign Feature: Adjust spacing automatically when cutting and pasting words Sponsor for this episode: >>PageProof is the top online proofing workflow platform for your creative process: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Powerpoint, image files, and more. It's free for reviewers, and flat rate pricing for you and your designers makes it easy to get started! We interview Marcus Radich, CTO, in this ep...

2023-02-0144 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 302In this episode… News CreativePro Week 2023 registration includes InDesign and more Recordings available for the Design & Accessibility Summit Go to our Events page to see 4 new online summits for 2023 CreativePro Magazine December 2022 issue dives deep into fonts and the Pantone color aggravation Good Grief: Goodbye to Type 1 Fonts and bundled Pantone spot colors Interview with Marcus Radich, chief tech officer of PageProof Obscure InDesign Feature: Select Unused Parents Sponsor for this episode: >>PageProof is the top online proofing workflow platform for your creative process: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Powerpoint, image files, and more. It's free for rev...

2022-12-2046 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 301In this episode: News CreativePro Week 2023 registration opens October 6, 2022 Design & Accessibility Summit (online) Nov. 29–Dec. 2, 2022 CreativePro Magazine covering tips, insights, and more What's New in InDesign 2023 Interview with Mark Hilton and Gabe Harbs from Santa Cruz Software Obscure InDesign Feature: Vertical Scale Sponsor for this episode: >> Santa Cruz Software is the creator of BrandingUI, LinkrUI, and PrintUI: BrandingUI empowers your global team to customize materials at scale, all while staying brand compliant. More on LinkrUI: Survey Finds Over Four in Five Creative Pros Spend Time Weekly Finding Lost Assets Streamline Design Team Workflows with Li...

2022-11-2856 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 300In this landmark 300th episode… News Anne-Marie and David will be live at Adobe MAX in October CreativePro Week 2023 registration opens October 6, 2022 Design & Accessibility Summit (online) Nov. 29–Dec. 2, 2022 Whoa! 300 episodes! A look back at 17 years of the InDesign Secrets podcast Snippets from the first episode, Nov. 29, 2005 Audio snippets from friends and colleagues with limericks, favorite features, memories, and more The FIRST Obscure InDesign Feature: Friendly Alien (A young David explains this in the first episode) Sponsors for this episode: >> Canto is a leader in digital asset management (DAM) software, with customers that include many of today...

2022-09-2747 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 299In this episode… News Last chance to get CreativePro Week 2022 videos and handouts Our online Design and Marketing Summit debuts July 18–19 Illustrator Summit returns Sept 22–23 Anne-Marie and David will be live at Adobe MAX in October CreativePro Magazine's July issue is all about Illustrator and InDesign Type: https://creativepro.com/issues/ "Smarter Workflows with InDesign and Word," Anne-Marie's newly-published course on LinkedIn Learning Editorial Tools and Panels in InDesign Obscure InDesign Feature: Select Subject Sponsor for this episode: > > Santa Cruz Software has a solution for the "83% of respondents who have said they have to spend time find...

2022-06-3024 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesign Secrets Podcast 298In this episode… News CreativePro Week 2022 recap Design and Marketing Summit coming up in July! CreativePro Magazine issues: https://creativepro.com/issues/ Cool InDesign tips we learned at the conference Obscure InDesign Feature: Create Button Trigger Sponsor for this episode: >> Canto is a leader in digital asset management (DAM) software, with customers that include many of today's top brands. This is an incredibly intuitive and easy to use platform that gives creative teams a centralized location to organize, find, and share all of their digital brand assets, including videos, images, graphics, etc. Canto integrates directly with A...

2022-05-3132 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 297In this episode… News Adobe InDesign 17.2.1 update patch released CreativePro Week May 9-13, live in DC and online CreativePro Events: https://creativepro.com/events CreativePro Magazine: https://creativepro.com/issues/ CI-HUB Prize Raffle: https://ci-hub.com/creativepro/ Deadline is May 2 2022! Details on that page Field Guide to Non-Printing Highlights (there are more than you think!) Obscure InDesign Feature: Float in Window Sponsors for this episode: >> Microsoft and Adobe! Both of these fine companies are CreativePro partners and will be represented at CreativePro Week 2022. Adobe is flying in a group of Adobe CC engineers from India...

2022-04-2733 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 296In this episode… News Adobe InDesign 17.2 update patch released CreativePro Week agenda is up! May 9-13, live in DC and online The cover story in the March 2022 issue of CreativePro magazine dives deep into alternatives to Adobe software (including how Affinity Publisher stacks up to InDesign) And the April issue is all about making data visual; a must-read for anyone who makes charts, graphs, infographics, and so on Interview with Andreas Michalski of CI-HUB Control Panel vs. the Properties Panel: Total Smackdown! Obscure InDesign Feature: Key Object Sponsor for this episode: >> Canto (they dropped the "Cumulus" name a...

2022-03-3145 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 295In this episode… News Creative Pro Events full 2022 schedule is up! The Design + PowerPoint Summit, March 10-11 CreativePro Week, May 9-13 (live in DC and online!) The Design + Marketing Summit, July 18-19 The Adobe Illustrator Summit, September 22-23 The Design + Accessibility Summit, November 29-December 2 InDesign's Most Confusing Features Obscure InDesign Feature: Others Links mentioned in this podcast: Design + PowerPoint Summit, CreativePro Week, and more! https://creativepro.com/events Confusing Features Start document on a left-hand page: https://creativepro.com/starting-a-document-on-a-left-hand-page/ Gap Tool: https://creativepro.com/exactly-indesign-tool/ Auto-Fit: https://creativepro.com/video-use-auto-fit-on-images/ How Gradients Work: https://creativepro.com...

2022-02-2729 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 294In this episode… News Creative Pro Events full 2022 schedule is up! The Design + PowerPoint Summit, March 10-11 CreativePro Week, May 9-13 (live in DC and online!) The Design + Marketing Summit, July 18-19 The Adobe Illustrator Summit, September 22-23 The Design + Accessibility Summit, November 29-December 2 Pantone® and Adobe brouhaha InDesign Collaboration Tips and Solutions Obscure InDesign Feature: Accessibility (it appears in an InDesign panel) Sponsors for this episode: >> Ajar Productions is the developer of the phenomenal in5 add-on for Adobe InDesign, which lets you export interactivity from InDesign to different formats that actually work. Create websites, digital magazines...

2022-01-2536 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 293In this episode… News Adobe InDesign 2022 has an update (v17.01x) CreativePro Magazine issue 1 is out! On-Demand passes now available for the expanded Design + Accessibility Summit Some Totally Obvious InDesign Things We Just Learned This Year Interview with Marcus Radich from PageProof Obscure InDesign Feature: "Roger, hungry, ate 236 peaches and cantaloupes in 1904" Sponsors for this episode: > 3M's VAS: 3M's Visual Attention Software (VAS) is powerful, science-based AI that simulates the human vision system to analyze visual content and predicts with 92% accuracy what is attracting viewer attention. VAS is available as a web app and plugins for Ado...

2021-11-2644 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesign Secrets Podcast 292In this episode… News Adobe InDesign 2022 (v17.0x) now available InDesign Magazine is evolving into CreativePro magazine, first issue out November 1 2021! Sign up for our expanded Design + Accessibility Summit, Nov. 16–19 Interview with Chad Chelius and Dax Castro, accessibility experts and hosts of The A11y Podcast Obscure InDesign Feature: Flip Sponsors for this episode: > Santa Cruz Software has a solution for the "83% of respondents who have said they have to spend time finding a lost asset." The answer is LinkrUI, a plugin that enables direct searching, opening, placing, and syncing of assets stored in a DAM or...

2021-10-2644 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 291In this episode… News InDesign Magazine is evolving into CreativePro magazine Adobe InDesign 16.4 released Adobe MAX 2021 is Oct. 26–Oct. 28; David and AM are presenting! Our new online event! The Design + Accessibility Summit, Nov. 16–19 You can purchase online passes (recordings and handouts) of our previous events on our Events page Interview with Kieron Lewis, designer, teacher, and new MAX speaker on Empowering Community through Collaboration and Editorial Design Obscure InDesign Feature: Edit in Copy Editor (beta) Sponsors for this episode: > Santa Cruz Software has a solution for the "83% of respondents who have said they have to spend ti...

2021-09-2740 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesign Secrets Podcast 290In this episode… News Adobe MAX 2021 is Oct. 26–Oct. 28; David and AM are presenting! Our new online event! The Design + Accessibility Summit, Nov. 16–19 You can purchase online passes (recordings and handouts) of our previous events on our Events page InDesign Magazine August and September issues are out, excellent content! Interview with Angelo Montilla, InDesign YouTube star and new MAX speaker Nested Styles vs. GREP Styles: What's the difference? Obscure InDesign Feature: Extensions Sponsor for this episode: > Adobe MAX 2021: Once again, the Creativity Conference is online and free! Register today to see all the 300+ sessions covering everyt...

2021-08-3140 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 289In this episode… News Last chance for live tickets to the InDesign + Type Summit (online event) July 29–30, 2021 if you're a nonprofit, government agency, student, or work for a school, contact events@creativepro.com for a $100 discount code The Adobe Illustrator Summit, August 26-27: https://creativepro.com/adobe-illustrator-summit/ InDesign Magazine for July 2021 is Illustrator and InDesign; August 2021 is on creating social media artwork and making dielines for print packaging Best practices for working with Illustrator documents in InDesign Keyboard shortcut of the month: Capital E (yes, Shift-E) Obscure InDesign Feature: Crop to Art Sponsors for this episode: >...

2021-07-2736 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 288In this episode… News Videos on demand for CreativePro Week 2021 InDesign + Type Summit (online event) July 29–30, 2021 InDesign Magazine for June 2021 is all about Type and Typography! Our favorite type tips and scripts Obscure InDesign Feature: Nonbreaking Space (Fixed Width) Links mentioned in this podcast: Videos on Demand now available for CreativePro Week 2021 The InDesign + Type Summit InDesign Tips videos on LinkedIn Learning/Lynda.com: InDesign Tips for Design Geeks (AM's new weekly course) InDesign Secrets (David and AM's weekly course) InDesign 16.3.1 notes: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/fixed-issues.html https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/Indes...

2021-06-2735 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 287In this episode… News Videos on demand for CreativePro Week 2021 InDesign + Type Summit (online event) July 29–30, 2021 InDesign Magazine for May 2021 (gradients) and June 2021 (type and typography) Making presentations with InDesign Keyboard shortcut of the month: Control-B (Command-B on Mac) Obscure InDesign Feature: On Click (Self) Links mentioned in this podcast: Videos on Demand now available for CreativePro Week 2021 The InDesign + Type Summit Creating Presentations with InDesign InDesign Magazine feature story Free InDesign presentation template InDesign Template of the Month: Flexible Presentation InDesign presentation templates at Adobe Stock (many free) Jesus Ramirez: Yes, we have a Banana (in Pho...

2021-05-3125 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 286In this episode… News Signed up for CreativePro Week 2021? Speak at Ignite! InDesign 16.2 released and then pulled Why objects and text sometime just … disappear Obscure InDesign Feature: Split Window to Compare Layouts News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Ajar Productions is the developer of the phenomenal in5 add-on for Adobe InDesign, which lets you export interactivity from InDesign to different formats, that actually work. in5 supports all of InDesign's native interactivity—like animation, buttons, object states, audio and video—and in5 adds additional interactivity to InDesign, like 3-D Flip Cards, Responsive Layouts, Parallax, and more. Crea...

2021-04-3030 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 285In this episode… News CreativePro Week 2021 agenda and speakers are up! Bug fix for InDesign 2021 brings it to v16.1 Interview with Justin Putney, in5 plugin creator We space out with some cool spacing tips Obscure InDesign Feature: Sort Swatches by Color Value Links mentioned in this podcast: Register now for CreativePro Week 2021 Want to speak at CreativePro events? Fill this out Justin Putney and in5 links: Product page for in5 interactive export add-on for InDesign Script for Merging Multiple Text Frames Into One Copy (Package) Fonts to Folder Justin's original Kickstarter page Why Justin says "Interactive PDF...

2021-03-3146 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 284In this episode… News Agenda is up for the online CreativePro Week 2021! Register now to score early-bird pricing. Throw your hat in the ring for "I want to speak at CreativePro events" Anne-Marie's new weekly series is live! "InDesign Tips for Design Geeks" Useful Adobe Bridge features for InDesign users Obscure InDesign Feature: The InDesign Button News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Cacidi Systems has been developing solutions for Adobe InDesign users since InDesign began! They offer a number of plug-ins and workflow system for content integration and efficient marketing production. We especially love Cacid...

2021-02-2832 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 283In this episode… News Minor updates to InDesign 2021 released The 2021 InDesign Conference (part of CreativePro Week) is online-only, May 17-21. Registration is open! All about Transparency in InDesign — looks great, but will it print? Obscure InDesign Feature: Lights Links mentioned in this podcast: Register now for CreativePro Week 2021 PowerPoint Presentation Design Deep Dive and other online events New features in 16.0.1 and 16.0.2 Transparency (Jan 2021 feature story in InDesign Magazine) Great article by Claudia McCue: https://creativepro.com/regarding-transparency/ Article about transparency effects by Steve Caplin: https://creativepro.com/the-fx-files/\ Yes, "opaques" are a thing! https://www.sockdreams.com/o...

2021-01-3028 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 282Special episode recorded LIVE at our 2020 Holiday Special! Save the Date for our next online conference: Click: Powerpoint and Presentation Design, February 18–19, 2021 December 2020 issue of InDesign Magazine is all about creating web and screen graphics Making gifts with InDesign Interview with John McWade Obscure InDesign Feature: Animated Zoom Links mentioned in this podcast: Register now for CreativePro Week 2021 Keith Gilbert's 100 Things Every InDesign User Should Know, our new ebook Making gifts from InDesign PhotoFlinger (laying out photos and objects quickly): https://www.premediasystems.com/scripts-and-more Blurb Photo book maker: https://www.blurb.com/indesign-plugin Spoonflower for fabric, wallp...

2020-12-2033 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 281In this episode: Recordings available for the InDesign + Accessibility Summit See the agenda for our first-ever InDesign Secrets Holiday Special, Dec. 15 InDesign 2020 bug fix released Best practices for updating InDesign Check out the InDesign goodies (many are free) in the Creative Cloud Marketplace Obscure InDesign Feature: Tint Range Links mentioned in this podcast: CreativePro.com Cyber week deals Register now for CreativePro Week 2021 Should you update your software or operating system? Check out the Adobe Exchange for Creative Cloud Details on Find/Change Color InDesignSecrets… YouTube videos Facebook group LinkedIn group

2020-11-3027 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 280In this episode: InDesignSecrets.com merges with CreativePro.com! Conference news Adobe MAX 2020 was a success! Watch David's and Anne-Marie's sessions online Our first InDesign + Accessibility online summit, Nov 19–20 Save the Date: David & Anne-Marie's InDesign Secrets Holiday Special, Nov 15 InDesign 2021 released Obscure Feature: Update Link News and special offers from our sponsors: >> CI HUB is a platform for content integration and efficient marketing production. No more jumping between tools and windows to find the right asset! The CI HUB asset panel plugin for Adobe Creative Cloud and Microsoft Office applications essentially connects your brand assets living...

2020-10-3143 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 279In this episode: News: David and Anne-Marie are presenting at Adobe MAX 2020 (online only, free registration) Save the Date: Our first InDesign + Accessibility online summit, Nov 19–20 October issue of InDesign Magazine features 20 free scripts you can download Now live! Erica Gamet's "Introduction to GREP in InDesign" online course for CreativePro University Surprising and useful finds in Find/Change Obscure Feature: Open a Clone News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Issuu is the all-in-one platform to create and distribute beautiful digital publications, from brochures to magazines to sales collateral and more. It's perfect for creators, market...

2020-09-3028 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 278In this episode: News: Be a speaker at CreativePro events! Please fill out this form David and Anne-Marie presenting at Adobe MAX 2020 (free!) Our latest book, TypeTalk Vol. 1 by Ilene Strizver, now in PDF and print Adobe InDesign 2020 15.1.2 - bug fix and feature tweaks Adobe Fonts Gotchas Double-clicks you should try! OIFOTW: Paste Into State News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Issuu is the all-in-one platform to create and distribute beautiful digital publications, from brochures to magazines to sales collateral and more. It's perfect for creators, marketers, designers, educators, publishers, sales-people or anyone that wants...

2020-08-3130 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 277In this episode: News: Save the date: CreativePro Week 2021, May 17-21, Washington, DC July InDesign Magazine: Use With Caution! (Gotchas to avoid) Adobe MAX 2020 is free! All on-line, and we're both presenting InDesign settings you need to change right now. Do it! OIFOTW: Import File Links mentioned in this podcast: Adobe MAX 2020 Posts about settings Apply Leading to Entire Paragraph Changing Hyphenation and Justification Reset workspace Why you shouldn't use Basic paragraph style and also this post David's book The Joy of Pi Quick Apply for choosing menu items What David was thinking of when he ment...

2020-07-2927 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 276In this episode: News: The online CreativePro Week and InDesign Conference were a success! Save the date: CreativePro Week 2021, May 17-21, Washington, DC InDesign updated to 15.1.1 last week June InDesign Magazine: InDesign, Acrobat, and PDF tips Using the new Share for Review feature in 15.1.1 OIFOTW: Apply All Auto Edits News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Cacidi Systems, developers of awesome charts and barcode creation tools for InDesign. See their 15-minute session from CreativePro Week 2020 here. Cacidi just released a huge update to Cacidi Charts, which create many types of vector charts, easy to "convert" to In...

2020-06-2936 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 275In this episode: News: All-online CreativePro Week and InDesign Conference What's New in the February 2020 release of InDesign April InDesign Magazine: Design in Motion (After Effects) May InDesign Magazine: Chad Chelius on Forms Chad's amazing XML/InDesign map for COVID-19 stats Super-simple keyboard shortcuts everyone should know! OIFOTW: Rule Length Links mentioned in this podcast: CreativeProWeek 2020: Now an Online Event! All about After Effects from issue 132 UnicodeInjector script (and how to give it a shortcut) Breaking a Threaded Story Spring-loaded (springboard) shortcuts Make your own Preview shortcut Designing with Column Rules

2020-05-0124 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 274In this episode: News: All-online CreativePro Week and InDesign Conference New Creative Cloud Feature: Upload Your Own Fonts March InDesign Magazine: Obscure Features Revealed April InDesign Magazine: Design in Motion Three InDesign puzzles, pulled from our Facebook group, solved! OIFOTW: Fancy Links mentioned in this podcast: CreativeProWeek 2020: Now an Online Event! Using your own fonts with Creative Cloud app Great questions from our Facebook group Anne-Marie's course on creating templates or "starter files": When InDesign ignores your leading values: info here and here Using variable fonts in InDesign Assigning shortcuts to styles

2020-04-0128 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 273In this episode: News: Agenda announced for CreativePro Week and the InDesign Conference January issue of InDesign Magazine: Claudia McCue's awesome RGB vs CMYK February InDesign Magazine: Chad Chelius's must-read on Accessibile PDFs NEW: LinkedIn Profile Assessments! (Check out the InDesign one!) Please vote to fix InDesign bugs on Uservoice Interview with Steve Laskevitch, InDesign book author, training center owner, consultant OIFOTW: Find Similar Images News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Ajar Productions is the maker of in5, the miraculous InDesign add-on that lets you create digital magazines, websites, mobile apps, animated banners, & more fr...

2020-02-2837 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 272In this episode: News: New round of speakers announced for CreativePro Week 2020 AM is a MAX Master again! David's TEDxSeattle talk Bug fix update for InDesign 2020 Learn more in our YouTube channel and Facebook group Gotchas when sharing InDesign 2020 layouts with earlier versions Variable fonts: Ready for prime-time? OIFOTW: Redefine Scaling as 100% Links mentioned in this podcast: The upcoming InDesign Conference 2020, June 1–5 in Austin, Texas David's video of his "InDesign Pro Secrets" session at MAX David spoke at TEDxSeattle on the topic of Spectrums Gotcha: New text flow involving indents and text wrap Blog post (premium) on Using...

2020-01-0130 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 271In this (super-sized) episode: News: First 10 speakers announced for CreativePro Week 2020 Adobe MAX 2019 recap Adobe InDesign 2020 released! InDesign at 20, our November 2019 magazine issue InDesign 2020 new features: Hits, Duds, and Workarounds Interview with Dave Clayton, InDesign writer, designer, podcaster, and speaker OIFOTW: Hide New Layers When Updating or Relinking Links mentioned in this podcast: The upcoming InDesign Conference 2020, June 1–5 in Austin, Texas First ten CreativePro Week speakers announced David's video of his "InDesign Pro Secrets" session at MAX Anne-Marie's handout and practice files from "InDesign for Absolute Beginners" lab at MAX JavaScripting with InDesign by Peter Kahrel New feature...

2019-11-2141 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 270In this episode: News: Register now for CreativePro Week 2020 in Austin Texas We'll be speaking and exhibiting (booth 815) at Adobe MAX 2019 InDesign Magazine Sept 2019: The Tips Issue! InDesign Magazine Oct 2019: Charts and Graphs One year later: Have the new features in CC2019 held up? OIFOTW: Enable Overrides Links mentioned in this podcast: The upcoming InDesign Conference 2020, June 1–5 in Austin, Texas Use our code P19MCPN for a $400 discount for Adobe MAX What was new in CC 2019 and what was fixed Anne-Marie's videos on InDesign CC 2019: New Features A favorite CC 2019 feature: Space Between Paragraphs Using Same Style...

2019-10-0126 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 269In this episode: News: Videos of the 2019 InDesign Conference available Register now for CreativePro Week 2020 in Austin Texas We'll be speaking and exhibiting at Adobe MAX 2019 Check out the InDesignSecrets group on LinkedIn! Pasteboard tips, tricks, and little-known features OIFOTW: Hide Conveyor News and special offers from our sponsor: > The InDesign Conference Virtual Pass: Couldn't make it to Seattle for the InDesign event of the year? Register for a Virtual Pass to CreativePro Week 2019, and you'll be able to watch recordings of all the main conference sessions and tutorials as many times as you like, fro...

2019-08-3027 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 268In this episode: News: Upcoming Mac OS 10.15 can't run CS6 InDesign Conference 2019 a success! Couldn't make it to Seattle? Get a Virtual Pass We'll be speaking and exhibiting at Adobe MAX 2019 InDesignSecrets Facebook group now over 10,000 members Autocorrect tips and a great hack from Keith Gilbert OIFOTW: Prevent Duplicate User Colors News and special offers from our sponsor: > The InDesign Conference Virtual Pass: Couldn't make it to Seattle for the InDesign event of the year? Register for a Virtual Pass to CreativePro Week 2019, and you'll be able to watch recordings of all the main conference ses...

2019-06-3021 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 267In this episode: News: InDesign Conference 2019 in less than two weeks! Can't make it to Seattle? Get a Virtual Pass InDesignSecrets YouTube channel now over 4,000 subscribers Interview with Chad Chelius Keyboard Shortcut of the Week: Fit Frame to Content (Comm-Opt-C/Control-Alt-C) News and special offers from our sponsor: > The InDesign Conference Virtual Pass: Can't make it to Seattle for the InDesign event of the year? Register for a Virtual Pass to CreativePro Week 2019, and you'll be able to watch recordings of all the main conference sessions and tutorials as many times as you like, from your...

2019-05-2827 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 266In this episode: the News: InDesign Conference 2019 Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of InDesign! Virtual Pass now available May 2019 InDesign Magazine on Big (Format) Design GREP patch for InDesign CC 2019 14.0.2 Inside the Dark Art of Spellchecking Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Include Deleted Text when Spellchecking News and special offers from our sponsor: > The InDesign Conference: If you use Adobe InDesign, mark off June 10–13, 2019 in Seattle, WA, for the InDesign event of the year! Join InDesignSecrets hosts Anne-Marie Concepción and David Blatner, and dozens of top InDesign experts and members of the Adobe InDesign team...

2019-05-1225 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 265In this episode: News: InDesign Conference 2019 Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of InDesign! Tweaks and fixes in just-released InDesign CC 14.02s Five, or Six, or more Amazing Tips for Find/Change Favorite Keyboard Shortcut of the Week: Command-Option-N/Control-Alt-N News and special offers from our sponsor: > The InDesign Conference: If you use Adobe InDesign, mark off June 10–13, 2019 in Seattle, WA, for the InDesign event of the year! Join InDesignSecrets hosts Anne-Marie Concepción and David Blatner, and dozens of top InDesign experts and members of the Adobe InDesign team, for over 30 sessions and four in-depth half-day tutori...

2019-04-2624 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 264In this episode: News: GREP in InDesign now on Amazon! InDesign Magazine, April 2019 issue: Proposals InDesign Conference 2019 Hurry, early-bird savings deadline is April 15 (easy to remember!) How can you measure how well you or others know InDesign? Obscure Feature of the Week: Shadow Honors Other Efects News and special offers from our sponsor: > The InDesign Conference: If you use Adobe InDesign, mark off June 10–13, 2019 in Seattle, WA, for the InDesign event of the year! Join InDesignSecrets hosts Anne-Marie Concepción and David Blatner, and dozens of top InDesign experts and members of the Adobe InDesign team, for...

2019-04-0820 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 263In this episode: News: Two shorter podcasts! InDesign Magazine, March 2019 issue: Women in Design InDesign Conference 2019 Poster contest: Win a free 5-day Platinum pass Early-bird deadline is April 15 (easy to remember!) Changing margins? Adjust Layout tips and techniques Obscure Keyboard Shortcut of the Week: Reflow All Text News and special offers from our sponsor: > The InDesign Conference: If you use Adobe InDesign, mark off June 10–13, 2019 in Seattle, WA, for the InDesign event of the year! Join InDesignSecrets hosts Anne-Marie Concepción and David Blatner, and dozens of top InDesign experts and members of the Adobe InDesig...

2019-03-2117 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Episode 262In this episode: News: Double the podcast, double the fun! InDesign Conference 2019 Agenda (InDesign sessions and deep-dive tutorials) schedule posted! Poster contest: Win a free 5-day Platinum pass Soft proofing for CMYK output in an RGB layout Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Guide Type News and special offers from our sponsor: > The InDesign Conference: If you use Adobe InDesign, mark off June 10–13, 2019 in Seattle, WA, for the InDesign event of the year! Join InDesignSecrets hosts Anne-Marie Concepción and David Blatner, and dozens of top InDesign experts and members of the Adobe InDesign team, for ove...

2019-03-0121 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 261In this episode: News: Tons of new videos on InDesignSecrets YouTube channel InDesign Conference 2019 20th anniversary of InDesign! We'll have some special events New speakers include Ina Saltz, Tony Harmer, Conrad Chavez, and Dax Castro Commenting on PDFs in the cloud with Acrobat DC Import PDF Comments (new feature in CC 2019) in depth GREP in InDesign, 3rd edition released Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Change Arabic Diacritic Color News and special offers from our sponsor: > The InDesign Conference: If you use Adobe InDesign, mark off June 10–13, 2019 in Seattle, WA, for the InDesign event of the yea...

2019-01-2129 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 260In this episode: News: InDesignSecrets YouTube channel and Facebook group Video courses: InDesign CC 2019 New Features, and Essential Training InDesign CC 2019 Adobe MAX 2018 recap Presentations with InDesign magazine feature by Mark Heaps What's new and what to watch out for with InDesign CC 2019 Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: By Unicode (or by CID/GID) News and special offers from our sponsor: > The InDesign Conference: If you use Adobe InDesign, mark off June 10–13, 2019 in Seattle, WA, for the InDesign event of the year! Join InDesignSecrets hosts Anne-Marie Concepción and David Blatner, and dozens of top InDesign ex...

2018-10-3135 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 259In this episode, Anne-Marie flies solo! News: InDesignSecrets YouTube channel and Facebook group New online course: Accessible EPUBs from InDesign Sneak Peek: Adobe InDesign CC 2019 Interview with the authors of Book Design Made Simple Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Live Edit Mode News and special offers from our sponsor: > Adobe MAX brings together the world's top creatives and best-in-the-business experts to get inspired, learn skills, and play. October 15–17 in Los Angeles. Anne-Marie and David are both speaking at separate hands-on InDesign labs. Come to the Community Pavilion and say hi to us at the CPN booth...

2018-09-3032 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 258In this episode: News: InDesignSecrets YouTube channel and Facebook group Designing for Sustainability article September 2018 InDesign Magazine: Calendars Disappearing Text? Might be a formatting "gotcha"! Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Group Alert News and special offers from our sponsor: > Adobe MAX brings together the world's top creatives and best-in-the-business experts to get inspired, learn skills, and play. October 15–17 in Los Angeles. Anne-Marie and David are both speaking at separate hands-on InDesign labs. Come to the Community Pavilion and say hi to us at the CPN booth (#408)! Use our code CDCcreate2018 to save $400 off registration! Links ment...

2018-08-3121 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 257In this episode: News: Update adds CC Libraries to Bridge CC 2018 Help test the Import PDF Comments feature InDesign CC 2019 Registration open for the InDesign Conference 2019 See us at Adobe MAX in October! Table Strokes, why are they such a pain, and secret tips Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Reset Hyperlink Links mentioned in this podcast: Bridge CC is free CreativePro Week 2019 will be June 10-14 in Seattle Which other features are "In the Beta Build" in InDesign CC 2019? Sign up for Adobe prerelease (beta testing) Save $400 off of Adobe MAX registration with our code Our posts with...

2018-08-0123 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 256In this episode: News: Fun news and cool tips from The InDesign Conference and CreativePro Week News about our 2019 conference that you'll want to hear Anne-Marie's new course: InDesign CC 2018: EPUB Applying object styles to groups of object-styled objects Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Use Native Digits When Typing in Arabic Scripts Links mentioned in this podcast: CreativePro Week 2019 will be June 10-14 in Seattle. Registration opens July 9, special $400 off multi-day registrations for the first 48 hours! IR2Office from Recosoft Managing Conversions Between Adobe CC and Microsoft Office (Anne-Marie's title) Graphic Artists Guild (GAG) Mag+ Markzware's Da...

2018-07-0132 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 255In this episode: News: InDesign Conference 2018, June 4–7 in New Orleans: it's happening! Get a Virtual Pass to the InDesign Conference (and others!) to see videos and handouts New LinkedIn Learning/Lynda.com courses: New Features in InDesign CC 2018.1 (Anne-Marie) and InDesign: Interactive PDFs (David) InDesign Magazine: April 2018 issue about Interactive Portfolios, May 2018 issue about Digital Asset Management systems, and the June 2018 issue will be about making InDesign and Illustrator play nicely together. The problem with default RGB [Black] and CMYK [Black] Interview with Khoi Vinh, Adobe's Principal Designer Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Greek Vector Objects on Drag News and spe...

2018-05-2534 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 253In this episode: News: CreativePro Week poster contest: Win a Platinum Pass! Join over 2,000 colleagues in our Facebook discussion group InDesign Magazine: Feb 2018 issue all about color, March 2018 issue about making InDesign and Photoshop play nicely together Top InDesign Feature Requests: Adobe is listening! I See Blue Things: What are those weird squiggles and borders? Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Reveal Deleted Items News and special offers from our sponsors: > The InDesign Conference 2018 is June 4–7 in New Orleans, one of four back-to-back conferences in the same venue during CreativePro Week. Dozens of speakers—returning favorites and new f...

2018-03-0230 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 251In this episode: A little bit of news: Facebook discussion group for InDesignSecrets folks InCopy user? Take Adobe's InCopy user survey InDesign Magazine: Our January 2018 issue has a new look Designers vs Production Folks Interview with Russell Viers Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Grids in Back Links mentioned in this podcast: CreativePro Week 2018 registration open and first speakers announced Join us in our Facebook group! More about Russell Viers About ink-aliasing in InDesign In a heated discussion during the podcast, the question was debated: If you alias a spot ink to another spot ink, will it...

2017-12-2740 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 250In this episode: A little bit of news: InDesign CC 2018 update released (13.0.1) First round of CreativePro Week 2018 speakers announced InDesign Magazine Dec 2018: Creating Accessible EPUBs, and an in-depth review of Cacidi's Chart plug-in for InDesign Coming in January: InDesign Magazine ground-up redesign! You'll love it Managing threaded stories manually and with free scripts Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Repair All News and special offers from our sponsors: >> FunctionFox is a leader in timesheets and project management for creative teams since 1999. Still using paper timesheets or Excel to track project hours? Use FunctionFox to help manag...

2017-12-0125 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 246In this episode: David's special guest co-host was Jonathan Levit, InDesign trainer and professional magician News: CreativePro Week 2018 (including the InDesign Conference) will be in New Orleans, June 4-8, 2018 InDesign Magazine's July 2017 issue was on automated Publishing w/InDesign Our 100th issue of InDesign Magazine is in August, so it'll have 100 tips and 100 free scripts! Auto-sizing of text frames Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Tool Hints (the loneliest panel) Links mentioned in this podcast: Special co-host Jonathan Levit His training and consulting company His professional magician and acting site Jonathan's article, "The Magic of InDesign" CreativePro...

2017-07-3133 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 244In this episode: News: CreativePro Week Virtual Pass now available InDesign Magazine May 2017: Find/Change CreativePro Week 2017 recap and fave moments Useless InDesign Tool: Poll Results Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Submit Bug/Feature Request Links mentioned in this podcast: How to script, for the absolute beginner Recap of The InDesign Conference at CreativePro Week SimpleHTML script from Justin at Ajar Productions Virtual Pass (video, handouts, sponsor discounts) to The InDesign Conference and CreativePro Week Join the InDesign Prerelease program Adobe Wishlist form

2017-06-0121 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 243In this episode: News and Updates: Acrobat DC 2017 now available (what's new) CreativePro Week coming up May 22-26! InDesign Magazine April 2017: Type Effects! We examine the stunning achievement that is InDesign 2017.1 Interview with Theresa Jackson, Adobe guru, trainer, and designer Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Recently Published News and special offers from our sponsors: > Acuity Training, based in the UK, offers training in Adobe InDesign and the full range of Adobe products with Adobe qualified trainers, as well Microsoft and other software suites and programs. They've been awarded a Gold-Star Rating from Feefo.com for fo...

2017-05-0146 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 242In this episode: News and Updates: Stellar line-up of speakers & sessions at the InDesign Conference InDesign Magazine March 2017 is all about footnotes, endnotes, and sidenotes Using Acrobat's deeply buried Object Inspector on your InDesign PDFs! The Next Big Thing for interactive PDFs? We hear things ... Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Flip Pages (it's not what you think) News and special offers from our sponsors: > CircularFLO from Circular Software is an InDesign add-on that lets you easily create true replicas of existing print layouts. Directly export to fixed layout EPUB3 or the Amazon KF8 fixed layou...

2017-03-3125 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 241In this episode: News and Updates: The InDesign Conference is part of CreativePro Week 2017 All InDesign Conference speakers and sessions are up! InDesign Magazine Feb. 2017, "Special Characters," is all about advanced typography Interview with Justin Seeley, Adobe genius and Star Wars nerd Fascinating fresh features for footnotes, finally Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Inline Background Color Links mentioned in this podcast: Check out the sessions and speakers at CreativePro Week 2017 Register now for the InDesign Conference 2017! Check out the InDesign Magazine issue on Special Characters and Typography Find the Greenlight service (cloud-based preflighting) on CircularSoftware.com...

2017-02-2736 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 240In this episode: News and Updates: InDesign Conference is part of CreativePro Week 2017 InDesign Magazine Jan. 2017 focuses on Editorial Tools GREP! QuickApply and Hyperlinks crash fix Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Entire Pasteboard Links mentioned in this podcast: Full info (and registration!) for CreativePro Week 2017 GREP Favorite GREP expressions you can use 5 Cool Things you can do with GREP Styles The InDesignSecrets GREP Resources page Normalizing a phone number Finding stuff between quotes or parentheses Erica's GREP cheat sheet PDF Erica Gamet's YouTube channel GREP visualizer Treasures of GREP group on Facebook Happy Hanukah GREP:

2017-01-2930 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 239In this episode: News and Updates: InDesign Conference 2016 wrap-up InDesign Magazine Dec. 2016 focuses on Middle East design and fonts Our upcoming issue for Jan. 2017 is all about editorial tools in InDesign Registration open for the 2017 InDesign Conference, May 22-25, part of CreativePro Week The winning InDesign tip (by audience acclaim) from the 2016 ID Conference Our top 10 blog and magazine articles from 2016: good reading! Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Customize Control Panel News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Centre in the UK, is a premiere provider of Adobe InDesign, Adobe...

2016-12-2927 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 238A very special episode, recorded in front of a live audience at The InDesign Conference 2016! Scroll down to see a couple pictures. In this episode: News and Updates: Quick history lesson about our podcast InDesign CC 2017 released last week Fun times at AdobeMAX! InDesign Magazine Nov. 2016 is magical (literally) and comes with videos! Registration open for the 2017 InDesign Conference, May 22-25, part of CreativePro Week Interview with Mohammed Javed Ali, InDesign product manager Our top 10 OIFOTW's (Obscure InDesign Features) from episodes 3 to 237 And this episode's Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Alpha Channel News and speci...

2016-11-2344 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 235In this episode: Latest news: InDesign CC 2015.4 POINT 1 update ... oy the naming The InDesign Conference 2016 is coming soon — November! PePcon 2016 videos and CreativePro Conf 2016 videos are up InDesign Magazine Script-o-Pedia All about InDesign's new GPU feature Interview with Brian Wood, InDesign Guru Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Zoom Setting The QUIZZLER returns! News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Teacup Software is a consulting firm and a vendor of simple, elegant, and unobtrusive plug-ins for InDesign, including BarCodeMaker, PatternMaker (developed with our own David Blatner), and DataLinker, for linking to databases. Teacup moved to a su...

2016-09-0136 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 234In this episode: Latest news: InDesign CC 2015.4 update (and InCopy CC 2015.4 too!) Register for CreativePro Conference and The InDesign Conference June 2016 InDesign Magazine: Photography & InDesign July 2016 InDesign Magazine: Fonts and Typography PePcon Recap! And we each share one tip we learned at the show A number of tips to know about (Auto-) Numbered Lists Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Dimensions Include Stroke Weight News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Centre in the UK, is a premiere provider of Adobe InDesign, Adobe Animate (née Flash) and Adobe AEM training...

2016-06-2931 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 233In this episode: Latest news: Creative Cloud Libraries get a welcome update Register for CreativePro Conference and The InDesign Conference May 2016 InDesign Magazine is a color (management) deep dive June 2016 InDesign Magazine: Photography & InDesign Making the UI (User Interface) your own Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Keep with Next Row News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Centre in the UK, is a premiere provider of Adobe InDesign, Adobe Animate (née Flash) and Adobe AEM training, as well as many other software programs. Their students are achieving a 98% pass r...

2016-06-0131 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 232In this episode: Latest news: PePcon's community site, PePcon Connect, is live Register for PePcon, CreativePro Conference, InDesign Conference April 2016 InDesign Magazine: The White Space Issue May 2016 InDesign Magazine is a color (management) deep dive! Inside Mike Riordan's head (interview with our Editor-in-Chief!) All About Alternative Glyphs Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Hide Column News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Centre in the UK, is a premiere provider of Adobe InDesign, Adobe Animate (née Flash) and Adobe AEM training, as well as many other software programs. Their students are...

2016-04-3032 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 231In this episode: Latest news: All 3 conference sites are up and running and taking registrations! Ta-da! Check 'em out: PePcon, CreativePro Conference, InDesign Conference "The White(space) Issue" InDesign Magazine/April 2016 Interview with Daniel Dejan of Sappi Paper Using One-Hit-Wonders: Single Attribute Live Preflight Profiles Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Limit Number of Rows Per Error News and special offers from our sponsors: >> PePcon (the Print + ePublishing Conference) is for anyone who's on the front lines of creating publications and wants to peek over their own cubicle to see how others are tackling the same...

2016-03-3134 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 230In this episode: Latest news: PePcon 2016 speakers & sessions announced CreativePro Conference site is live InDesign Magazine content debuts on our blog DPS is now called AEM Mobile TruEdit announces InCopy support Interview with Bart Van de Weile A Shaded Paragraph Conundrum! Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: [[:xdigit:]] News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko is a fine purveyor of many InDesign scripts and plug-ins. One of our favorites is TextExporter, a utility that comes in so handy, so often, that you forget it's not part of InDesign itself! Use TextExporter for those times...

2016-02-2941 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 229In this episode: Latest news: CreativePro Conference! PePcon, InDesign Conference, Creative Developer Summit Template Essentials, our new premium member benefit January 2016 InDesign Magazine: Publish Online David's new Color Management title at Lynda.com Our 2016 InDesign Resolution: Pay Attention to the Little Things! Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Select and Fit Item News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko, owned by InDesign developer extraordinaire Kris Coppieters, is not just about plug-ins or scripts. They also provide expertise as scripters, software developers and consultants when it comes to automating part of a graphics workflow. Rorohiko's mo...

2016-01-2826 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 225In this episode: News: Recording across the table from each other! (a little echo-y) Come see us at Adobe MAX David's speaking at the LA IDUG PePcon 2016: Registration is Open! The Urge to Merge: All about combining INDD files Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Prevent Selection of Locked Objects News and special offers from our sponsors: >> The Photoshop Conference, aka "The Photoshop Conference for the rest of us," is making its debut in November 16–18 in beautiful Denver, Colorado! Come and rub elbows with other designers, publishers, and production artists who want to learn from Photoshop p...

2015-09-0127 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 221In this episode: News: Adobe Comp CC, Typekit upgrades, PePcon All About I (the keyboard shortcut that changed with CC 2014) Interview with Roberto Blake, Graphic Designer/YouTube Star Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Masters Fixed News and special offers from our sponsors: >> movemen (pronounced move-eh-men) is the developer of MathTools, an outstanding equation editor plug-in for InDesign and InCopy. It's the tool of choice for science, math, and engineering textbook publishers worldwide. New in MathTools v2.0 is the ability to convert the equations to MathML (open source industry standard for math equations in XML/HTML5 /CSS3) upon ex...

2015-05-0141 min

The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 204CreativePro.com reader survey; Getting started with InCopy; Obscurity of the Week: Apply Gamma Correction In this episode: News: CreativePro.com survey Getting Started with InCopy Cost (comes with Creative Cloud!) Basic setup for small and large groups, local and remote Using its unique features for InDesign purposes Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Apply Gamma Correction News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Lynda.com is the nation's premiere provider of online instruction for creatives in the design, photography, and publishing fields. Check out David's latest title: Insider InDesign Training: Interactive PDFs, and Anne-Marie's Using Word...

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The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 191CreativePro and InDesign Magazine now part of InDesignSecrets; PEPCON networking and sponsors; Spell checking tips; Quizzler reminder; Obscurity of the Week: Sort Items ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-191.mp3(13.1 MB, 23:53 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. News CreativePro.com and InDesign Magazine are now part of the InDesignSecrets.com family Bought from the fine folks at PrintingForLess.com PEPCON News: Pre-conference networking, Sponsor news K-cup solution for David! All about Spell Checking and Check Spelling Quizzler reminder: Still time to se...

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The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 168Drawing in InDesign; Quizzler Winner (finally); Shortcut of the Week: Paste Into; Obscurity of the Week: Convert Direction Point Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-168.mp3 (18.2 MB, 32:32 minutes) [media id=89 width=* height=20] See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Announcements Congratulations to Mike Rankin, new Editor-in-Chief of InDesign Magazine and CreativePro.com Mike is one of the speakers at our Print + ePublishing Conference (May 14-16, San Francisco) On the East Coast? See us June 13-14: InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC Drawing in InDesign Pen tool and its s...

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The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 121 Tips for organizing styles; Gabriel Powell interview; ePub info; Obscurity of the Week: Sort Bookmarks ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-121.php for Show Notes, links, coupon codes, or to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-121.mp3 (15.2 MB, 30:19 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Best practices for organizing and naming text styles InDesignSecrets Seminars & Conference update; new speakers Mike Rankin's interview with ePub expert Gabriel Powell at th...

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The CreativePro Podcast InDesignSecrets Podcast 073News; Overprint by swatch; Preserve Numbers glitch; Em, En and Hyphens; Obscurity of the Week: the Measure Tool ----- Details below; or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-073.mp3 (14.2 MB, 31:05 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon) News: Lynda.com, Conferences, CreativePro.com, DesignGeek, ID User Groups Making a swatch overprint where ever it's used (full post) When CMYK - Preserve Numbers won't, and how to fix it (full post) Em...

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